IVFML Episode 1: We’re Trying

In the first episode of IVFML, a HuffPost podcast miniseries about infertility, health editor Anna Almendrala and her husband, comedy writer Simon Ganz try to make a baby, but things don’t go as planned.
The very definition of TMI, Anna and Simon use their own story to talk about all the hilarious, depressing, ridiculous, and expensive travails of trying to have a baby, from questioning one’s fundamental worth to putting up with other people’s opinions about your reproductive choices. They talk about infertility with an expert, explain how to masturbate in a doctor’s office and discuss all the bad advice they received from friends and family about how to get and stay pregnant.
They’re joined by fertility expert Dr. Gregory Rosen of Reproductive Partners Medical Group in Los Angeles.
Listen to Part 1 of IVFML below:
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Conclusions: All breakpoints at chromosome 2 were correlated with gestational infertility. Carriers of chromosome 2 translocations should therefore receive counseling to continue with natural conception and use of different technologies available via assisted reproductive technology, such as preimplantation genetic diagnosis.

in India is blindly trusting the IVF doctorIt ’s extremely important that you find a doctor you can trust – and it’s equally that you make sure that he earns that trust ! Trust is too important to be gifted to anyone .Sadly, the government does a poor job of regulating IVF clinics, which means there are many fly by night operators who just want to exploit patients. And it's easy to do this because infertile patients are ignorant and vulnerable.The trust equation , as defined by David Maister, says that the doctor must prove that he is reliable and credible – and you need to check this before signin...

Pregnancy after infertility is a challenging experience. The first-trimester screening test may add stress. Partner support reduces psychological distress in pregnant women after spontaneous conception. No data are available for women who conceive via assisted reproductive technology.

Publication date: Available online 29 November 2017Source: PhytomedicineAuthor(s): Sharanbasappa Durg, Shivakumar Badamaranahalli Shivaram, Sachin BavageAbstractBackground: Withania somnifera Dunal, commonly known as Indian ginseng, has been in use since ancient times as anti-stress agent, aphrodisiac, for impotence and infertility treatment.Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of W. somnifera treatment in infertile men.Study design: An evidence-based systematic review and meta-analysis using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines.Methods: published literature was sea...

India is still a developing country and most patients are quite poor. Infertile patients find it very hard to afford test tube baby treatment , because insurance doesn't cover for it, and they need to pay for it out of their pocket. And since they're never really sure whether the IVF cycle is going to work or not , so mentally they have to be prepared for making maybe two, three, or more attempts, until they finally get a baby.This is why they worry a lot about the cost – can they afford it ?The trouble is that a lot of IVF clinics aren't very up-front, transparent, or open about this important issue, because th...

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BACKGROUND: Pregnancies following assisted reproductive technology (ART) may have elevated potential risk of pregnancy loss (PL) when compared to natural conception. However, rare studies comprehensively analyzed the IVF/ICSI cycle-dependent factors for loss of clinical pregnancy. Therefore, we aimed to determine the ART subgroup-specific risks of PL throughout pregnancy and explore different risk factors for early miscarriage and late miscarriage among pregnancies conceived through ART.
METHODS: A retrospective cohort study was launched in two infertility treatment centers in Nanjing and Changzhou i...

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Infertility is a disease that affects up to 15.5% of reproductive-aged couples. Until the birth of the first neonate born from in vitro fertilization (IVF) in 1978, many infertile couples did not have an opportunity to conceive a biological child. Over the past 40 years, access to and effectiveness of IVF have increased; currently 1.7% of births in the United States result from IVF. As with any medical intervention, potential risk exists. In the case of IVF, both maternal risks (ovarian stimulation, oocyte retrieval, and subsequent pregnancy) and fetal risks that vary based on maternal age and fetal numbe...